Re: numeric web search (Was: URLs instead of URNs)

On 26/5/09 15:17, Wolfgang Orthuber wrote:
> Dan,
>
> in http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ I read "An http URI is a URL"
> . So I concluded that a different http URI is a different URL (address).
> At this I assumed, that all http URIs which refer to the same address
> (case insensitive), are defined as "identical". Is this correct?

I'd rather they'd have said "URL" is a technically obsolete but common 
colloquial term for http and http-like URIs. Identity of identifiers is 
tricky because you have to try to distinguish between identifiers which 
accidentally of transiently refer to the same thing, versus those where 
it is built-in to the definition of the scheme (eg. the port 80 and 
domain name canonicalisation rules).

Dan

Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 12:32:43 UTC